Leadership Resource: NeuYear Calendar

As a leader, your life is probably pretty busy. You’ve got meetings multiple times a week, conferences, and outside activities.

Keeping track of this can be difficult. I know it has been for me.

NeuYear Calendar

Today, I’d like to introduce you to a great leadership resource I’ve discovered called the NeuYear Calendar. The calendar retails for $30 but NeuYear was kind enough to provide me with a special discount code to save you 30%. Read to the end of the post to discover how you can claim this exclusive discount.

What I Like About The NeuYear Calendar

The NeuYear calendar is laid out so you can see the whole year at a glance. This makes planning easier as you can see your whole year as you’re writing in key dates and times. There’s no having to flip through a paged calendar and backtrack to insure you’re not duplicating events over multiple months.

Will You Help Me Help End The Child Sex Trade?

I wanted to share with you something that has been on my heart lately. Recently, I was asked to join with The Exodus Road and share their mission.

I jumped at the chance. And I wanted to share with you what we’re doing in South East Asia.

Child worker approaching a customer

Every month you’ll see a special blog post from me. It will be in regards to The Exodus Road, human trafficking, and the child sex trade. I’ll share stories from the men and women on the ground in south east Asia. They’re doing great work freeing those who have been brought into slavery.

The topic isn’t easy to think or write about. Yet we need to bring this to light and realize this horrible tragedy is happening.

Don’t Talk About It, Do It!

How many of you deal with meetings, phone calls, and emails that discuss the plans of your organization? If this sounds familiar, raise your hand.

I’m betting all of you are raising your hands right now.

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Image by Keoni Cabral

Most meetings consist of us sitting around with others in the organization discussing the plans we have for the company.

We’re heading in this direction. We’re going to take action here. We’re going after this market.

Yet when we leave the meeting, nothing seems to get down. Now that’s a problem!

This cycle reminds me of a riddle I once heard. It goes like this:

There were 3 birds sitting on a fence. 1 bird decided to fly away. How many are left on the fence.

The answer? 3. The 1 bird that decided to fly away decided on it but hadn’t taken action.

How To Carry Out An Uncomfortable Conversation

Ever have a team member under perform? Or maybe they were found to be lacking in character.

These are the times that call for uncomfortable conversations.

One of the toughest tasks we have as leaders is to carry out uncomfortable conversations. Usually the difficult conversation results in one or both parties leaving with hurt feelings.

Either you come off as too gruff or not stern enough. The feeling of unfinished business is left hanging in the air.

When we carry out an uncomfortable conversation, it’s best to have a plan or technique in place.

A great technique for having having a difficult conversation is the sandwich method. And no, it’s not give them a sandwich while breaking the bad news.

The sandwich method is carried out by using different layers for the conversation.

Top Posts And Commenters For November 2012

Another month is down. I hope November was as great a month for you as it was for me.

Lots of things are happening in the blog world. I’m excited to share some of those with you as I review the stats for the blog and share the top commenters. Are you ready?

November 2012 Wordle

Image By Wordle

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  6. Book Review: How To Win Friends And Influence People
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